Blew a fuse I cannot find... Bum,bum,bum.

[kemeisland]

First time poster, planning to be pretty active on this forum. Hello!

I searched for this in the existing posts and haven't found anything.

I have my first RV, testing out the full-time life. Bought an '89 Mallard ( M-270 SB-Ford, on an Econoline 350 chassis ). Everything has been pretty good once I got the RV into shape to begin with. I'm the third owner in 25 years.

Today I had a space heater and electric water kettle on the same circuit and I heard the fuse blow. Usually I take one or the other off and use one at a time. This time that didn't happen. Now all the outlets aren't working. I checked the fuse box at the back under the closet, close to where the power hookup comes in for 30 AMP, but none of the fuses are blown. I was aware a fuse might not look blown but still be blown, so I took one I knew worked and tried it on all the other spots, with an outlet tester plugged in to see if it lit up. None of the fuses seemed to affect it.

Where do I go from here? Is there somewhere else a fuse box might be, or a specific fuse for the outlets only? Right now I've put the space heater and my laptop on the separate circuit the microwave has, but that's not a solution and I'll need to be extra careful not to blow my only remaining outlet. I'm hoping there's easy access to some magic fuse.

Any wise full-timers or electrical magicians have any ideas?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!

[RoyB]

This is what a GFCI OUTLET looks like in my trailer.



I have one of these installed near the kitchen sink, bath room sink, and bedroom/hallway sink.

The GFCI Receptacles usually controls multiple receptacles near its installed location. My OUTSIDE receptacle is controlled by the kitchen GFCI receptacle.

I have two 120VAC Circuit Breaker ZONES in the 120VAC Power Distribution Panel that controls my trailer receptacles.

Roy Ken

[kemeisland]

Wow! Thank you all for such awesome responses. It is great to know there's a community out there for whatever might happen in the future. I'm glad to participate here, and very glad I signed up.

One of the first things I checked ( but forgot to mention ) is the Ground Fault Interrupter in the bathroom, but we're talking about the "RESET" button needing to be pressed, right? I pressed "RESET" and "TEST" then "RESET" but got no love. From what I remember of GFI's, when they are tripped the "RESET" button will be popped upward... but it was flush with the faceplate.

@ADAD437: This rig has six 15 AMP fuses and one 20 AMP fuse on the box where the master 30/20 AMP switches are, those are what I checked.

[ksg5000]

If it's not the GFI then flip the circuit breakers off then back on - also make sure the shore power circuit breaker is OK.

[Teacher_s_Pet]

A GFI in the bath or kitchen is where I'd look 1st after the power distribution panel. I know this might be a long shot. Have you checked for a circuit breaker on an most likely added "whole house" inverter. Though newer, our our Phaeton has only tripped one breaker on the power panel, that I can remember in 9+ years of full timing. We loose 120V power on the passenger side front of the coach when we try to use an electric heater in combination with the convection/microwave and a hairdryer or our Keurig coffee maker at the same time. Then it is usually the lower of the two breakers on the inverter, the upper breaker has never had to be reset, very seldom is it the bath GFI that covers the same circuit.

[Teacher_s_Pet]

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[ADAD437]

i don't understand what fuses you are talking about. it should have circuit breakers for the 110 volt outlets,the fuses you mention should be for 12 volt. as mentioned sounds like you tripped a gfci.

[craig7h]

Have you checked the GFI outlet. That may need to be reset